DR BRIDGET McConnell, head of Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG), the £100 million charity in charge of the city’s culture, said yesterday that she was alarmed by what she describes as a “personal witchhunt” against her by packs of evangelical loonies.
For the past six months, the head of Glasgow’s museums and art has been under [...]
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ACTOR Sam Elliott has accused the Catholic Church of pressurising Hollywood producers to scrap the final parts of Philip Pullman’s classic fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials.
Studio bosses have shelved plans to film the final two instalments of the fantasy, despite the success of the first movie, The Golden Compass, two years ago.
According to this [...]
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WHO?
Pattison is the new Director of Mediawatch-UK, an organisation best known for earwigging the number of naughty words used in the British media, and calling for bans of all manner of things it deems offensive.
It was founded by the late Mary Whitehouse, and it was originally named the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, appealing mainly [...]
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A GROUP of Muslim scholars in Lebanon yesterday forced the cancellation of a planned performance by a Brazilian samba troupe in the southern coastal city of Tyre on moral and religious grounds.
Sheikh Ali Yassin, one of 50 religious leaders who had called for the cancellation, told AFP:
This is a pornographic dance group that goes against [...]
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THIS summer it was revealed that Brazil would hold congressional hearings on a Vatican concordat it signed last November. According to Scots writer and secularist Muriel Fraser the decision thwarted attempts by the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference to have the agreement rushed to a vote under an emergency procedure for urgent matters of national defence.
But [...]
EARLIER this month The Telegraph reported that a new search engine – I’m Halal – had been launched to protect Muslims from “offensive” and “inappropriate” websites.
I’m Halal’s founder, Reza Sardeha, said he got the idea after friends complained that the more popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo!, were flagging up naughty stuff.
First of all, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
